Poll
Question: 331 or 351?
I "suspended" the insurance, it technically has insurance but its not insured for driving. just so I can keep the tags so now I will be spending $56 every 6 months lol :D
hoping to start working on pulling the motor today and have it out by sunday if im not busy doing anything else. the only thing left in the car is the front seats and dashboard, rear seats are just sitting in the hatch for now. So I will prally be selling my exhaust stuff if anybody needs anything (see sig)
Torn between a dss 331 or a dss 351, either of which will be carbed with lots of goodies on top :).
Bigger is always better. :)
351. enough said :D
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There's my vote.
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why not a 347 if ur going for an aftermarket block and all. if you dont like that i say 351. but think a 347 could be fun in the mustang.
duh.. 400 hp with a 351 is very doable with the right combo.. all cubes.
400hp in anything is doable with the right combo
the thing that you need to keep in mind, special headers would be required, and a few misc BS items for the 351 that the 302 wouldnt require
id go 331, that way the headers and h-pipe you have would still be useful
331, so you don't have to get different headers, lower intake, hood, oil pan, etc....
you can also say "it's only a 302" :evilgrin: then again, i'm a huge fan of the sleeper effect.....just ask the Z06 corvette that i was hanging with on route 100. :evilgrin:
Agreed 331,but for almost the same price,would go 347.
331 gets my vote...
331/347 :)
ive heard nice things about the 331, but the 347 on the other hand its been stated many times its not that great of a street motor, hell of a strip motor though.
I dont think Ill need a new hood if I was to get some motor mounts that lower it down a little because the mach 1 hood I have has a 1.5" raise. I think that would suffice to clear it. Besides, ive seen 351s under stock hoods before.
The exhaust parts thing im not worried about, Ill most likely just do it right this time and installed some long tubes on it with side exhaust :)
The 347 doesn't have the oil control of a 331, its not a good street motor...and a 331 is waaaay easier to install than a 351.
20 extra cubes of a 351 aren't gonna help that much...look how much faster a stock 5.0HO Mustang was compared to a TPI350 Camaro back in the day.
Go 331.
the oil issue was in the early 347's, most kits have been refined and revised since then, and most, if not all oiling issues are gone by now
are you trying to compare the 351 to the tpi 350's? god help us...
cute... TPI 350's...shame that stock for stock, the TPI 350 could outrun a 5.0 stang, and when a T5 is swapped in, T5 stang and T5 TPI 350...bye bye stang
Not likley,302s being a smaller cid motor were way better than that chevy ,look at the 305.
Bigger cube,lower hp output,pure junk.
If you have to compare a chev 350 just to keep up to a 302 then i feel sorry for ya!
Then if you really wanna go there,do the 347,again smaller displacement, and the tpi 350 chev will lose hardcore!
331/347
Street car or strip car?
mainly street, but will goto the track a few times a year. but if your going to say 331 based on that dont bother :p
No..I was going to say bypass the carbed set-up and do a tuneable EFI. I think you'll get better use and driveability out of that regardless of what you put under it....
I don't care whether you do 331 or 351....they're both V8's :yuck: :D :hick:
if you want to get technical, the LB9 (305 TPI) has equvalent HP to the 5.0 HO, put a 5-speed behind it, low and behold, youre outrunning mustangs
my friend with similar bolt ons to most stangs, CAI, headers back exhaust, roller rockers, and an adjustable FPR was running 14.3x's, with the swaybar, he's now got a 5-speed in the car
but yeah, no matter what, a chevy 305 is slow, even the ones you see running 400hp in oval track cars, those are slow too :rolleyes:
I have yet to see a 305 camaro/firebird outrun any 5.0l mustang,auto or stick,just not gonna happen.
They were complete dogs and would be hardcore outrun by my 5.0L HO AOD bird any day of the week.
Shawn, you're wrong. Ford > Chevy no matter what.
I'd say 351, but I might be a little biased :hick: :D I recently picked up a 351. :evilgrin: :D
nice, I think Ill buy picking one up to in a few weeks, the 26th starts my motor saving fund :)
well i guess you dont come around here often enough, theres one up the street that shouldnt have too much problem outruning most 5.0 cars that are relatively stock (stock heads/cam/intake)
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how often do you see a 305 car do that?
:rollin: Yeah, who can argue with that logic. :rolleyes:
Anyway, I'd love to take up the Chevy torch with you, Shawn, but the 305 was always a dog. A black spot on the history of the SBC. The 350 is another story, though. *blesses shrine*
347 in a heart beat. if your spending the money on the 331 build a 347. 302 based parts are cheap compared to 351 parts. oil control is an issue of the past.